Actor Lance Reddick's sudden death in 2023 was blindsiding. He was an always reliably great performer who frequently played cool and authoritative characters. His breakout part was playing Baltimore police lieutenant Cedric Daniels in the lifelike urban drama "The Wire," but he was just at home in genre films and TV .

Reddick's screen persona had the air of immortality; one of his last roles was playing Zeus in the Disney+ "Percy Jackson" series . Sadly, he's only immortal in our memories and on screen.

One person who wanted to work with Reddick, but never got the chance to, was James Gunn. On the latest "Peacemaker" podcast episode , Gunn revealed that he wrote the character of Clemson Murn in "Peacemaker" season 1 with Reddick in mind to play him:

"[Reddick] was supposed to play

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